Post columnist Steve Serby caught up with receiver Cris Carter, before his induction yesterday into the Hall of Fame, for some Q&A about his long road to Canton.
Q: You've had a long road to Canton. What was the low point?
A: To be an elite athlete, and at 24, for someone to clinically diagnose you as a crack addict ... and when you get involved in stuff like that, it takes you to dark places ... it takes you to dangerous places. You're risking your life. I finally decided I wasn't going to be controlled by any substance any longer, so I stopped.
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Cris Carter
Q: Was it an eye-opener getting cut by Eagles coach Buddy Ryan before the 1990 season?
A: That was the worst day of my life. For one, I was being cut — I'd never been cut before. No. 2, my wife was pregnant with our first child. I just bought a house, the first house I ever lived in. I loved Philadelphia. I loved my teammates.
Q: Did you think football was over for you?
A: No, I knew football wasn't over. But I didn't want to leave Philadelphia.
Q: What did Buddy say to you?
A: He told me that he had talked to his wife the night before. When he told her what might happen the next day, she begged him not to cut me. She said, "Cris Carter is a special kid. He's going to do something with his life." I never forgot what his wife said. It really encouraged me to know there was gonna be a place for me,
Q: What was the low point when you were on crack?
A: The low point was before the season trying to train and flunking that first drug test. I was trying to stop, and I really couldn't. My life was spiraling out of control. At that point, I was suspended, but it was in the offseason. My next strike I'd be banned from the NFL for life. Buddy was like, "I can't have you be my starter and six weeks into the season you're banned from the NFL." He told me he couldn't trust me.
Q: What was going on in your life that led to your drug use?
A: Everything to me was to be the best at, Even when I was using, that was my same mentality.
Q: What's the most you used in one day?
A: I'm not even gonna tell you, I know how it affects the story. I'm not proud of it, but I was smoking crack cocaine every day. I never ever saw my life being that way.
Q: Your life was spiraling out of control?
A: This is what I found out after I got help — I had a high bottom. I was very, very fortunate. I got diagnosed at an early stage and my bottom didn't go as low. You don't get trashed one night and you're driving down the highway and you kill someone and the judge orders you to go to rehab. When you don't reach the bottom bottom, you get the information and you don't bottom out. So my bottoming out was getting cut by Buddy.
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